The Sun. — London, England, 1826-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We hinted some time ago the suspicions which were circulated, that Miniaters,. • worried and • terrified by the country Gentlemen, had resolved on skulking out of the question, whether the existing corn laws Shall or shall not b e repealed. But it seems to us, on reconsidering the subject, that the course of action anticipated for his Mit jesty's Ministers was one which, from shame as well as 'humanity, they would be little disposed to adopt, and, moreover, one which they durst not attempt, however much they might be inclined to it. Lord Liverpool, and Mr. Hushisson stand equally pledged to bring forward the question of the corn laws. The general policy of a free trade in every other species of transportable merchandise, is one which has been too powerfully reasoned upon by both these commercial Statesmen, too deliberately em braced by them, too recently as well as too solemnly esta blished, and above all, too clearly. proved to be inevitable, for any Chimerical notion to be entertained of its speedy read or extensive modification, by its authors. England, Were she to play fast and loose with such high interests as those which are involved in the general system of her trade with foreign nations, would become, not merely the laughing-stock of the world, she would be considered as af llieted by a flutes of diseases which her legislators and coun cillors felt to be incurable. Her transit from prohibitions and monopoly to free trade, then again, within 12 months, from free trade to a resumption of the old prohibitory system, would never pass with mankind for spontaneous and bold ex periments of calculating wisdom, suggesting themselves to a people who had many resources within their choice; but rather fur the restless tossings of a sufferer stretched upon his dying bed, to whom any and every change of position brought a momentary suspension of torture. It is, We re peat, a moral impossibility now to discard the boasted im provements made within these two years upon the com mercial policy of England. The country must abide by them, or be disgraced" and no restoration of the old, exclusive, and prohibitory statutes wbuid henceforth in demnify her for national dishontntr by a relief from the ruin of her manufacturers. ror what has occasioned the decline of nur manufacturing industry—the less Of the home market? No; we still have that entire. A revival of the prohibitions would not give. bur manufacturing eople a more complete corn •of the home. mar ket (speaking generally) than they have at present, for they can have but the whole. What then have they lost? foreign market. It was the supply of foreign • markets with - British goods which produced the amazing prosperity of the British Manuflacturer, which caused such ustornshing flow of capital into the cotton, the woollen, and the hardware departments of trade such regiments of adventurers into activity—the cotton adventurer to force the markets with goods,. end the paper adventurer to sup ply him with fictitious resources. This has now disap peared—the storm came, and every crank and crazy and ill-found vessel perished. The foreign Market got, as was • in the long-run natural, into foreign hands--or into En glish hands, paralyzed by Mint at home, and naturalized in foreign countries. This is the true cause of our decay as a manufacturing people. There is no question upon that point; mei it is a cause which must be permanent, or the . 4'onlequences of it mint extend, if measures prompt Wed energetic be not instantly taken to circumscribe them. be consequences, now exhibited in the foreign market, must extend to the home market, because fo reign manufacturers, who have begun by beating us out of the supply of their respective • countries, • will improve their skill with every bale of cloths that they finish, so as to produce better cloths with each successive trial, and at the same expense : they will also, by the sale of each new 'web of cloth, increase their capital, as to enlarge their tales, and to b e eattilied with less profit on each separate article. Hemel the present occupiers of the foreign market twill become by and by invaders of • the English market; thireshall we be beaten: at •home as well as abroad, and instead of enjoy iug a monopoly every where, we (that is, the British manufacturers) shall be every where oppressed by nil exclusion. Why is this ? Because the hands or an English weaver are tied up. lie cannot live on his wages, and he cannot work and `starve. r And what is the remedy ? One says, let there be a monopoly in every article in favour of the British manufacturer, and against the British consumer; let there be, say others--and roe ere among them—free trade in every thing, for the sake of, end to the certain benefit of both. For what will monopoly do on behalf of. the manufaCturer ? Nothing; but every thing for the smuggler, whom it enriches at the eipenee both of the weaver and the consumer in this country. — Ala what will. •be the 'effect of a free trade comprehend, ings,,mind that—a free trade in • corn ? It enables the British manufacturer, first, to defend the home market against the foreigeer who threatens it; and next, to carry, as he was want to . do, , his arms abroad, and attack the foreigner upon the very ground from, Which the corn laws, conjoined with excessive taxes, (although they stand but in the second rank,) have enabled within these feW years .the foreign manufacturer to . displace his old English rival. Our plain opinion, on the whole, is this-- Ist. That the British cotton, woollen, mid silk .manufac tures are worse off, tinder a partial free trade, than under the former systeth of monopoly. 2d. That 'it is impos sible now to re-establish the monopoly. so recently abolished. 3d. That the evil of a free trade in manufac tures, combined with a monopoly in bread, can be. cured by no other human !TIMIS' but an extension of the liberty' to import corn. • A letter, in the faint of a pamphlet, 'hits been addressed to Lord Liverpool by a Mr. Blain, upon " the revision of the corn laws :" • but the : . gentleman, we think, goes quite astray in his adherence to, the wretched system of averages, as well as his under estimate of the price of 'cern in,the Baltic, He is further well satisfied with wheat •at per quarter. We. are not; ftir the obvious reason, that our manufactures desert its, because, with wheat at 575. per quarter, they cannot be sold at a A letterwe suppose we may say a second latter—has appeared from Mr. Ellice on the subject of the Greek Loan, and his connection with that unfortunate trans action. Had Mr. Ellice been content in this second let ter, as in the first, with saying nothing whatever excul patory of himself, we do not know that we should have given his production so severe a handling as we now think it our duty to do. But when, in addition to leaving his own cause in the lurch, he, for the sake of misdirecting the public attention, endeavours to cast imputations upon others, for which imputations . he has not, afid he does not even pretend that he halt, the slightest authority, it is high vine to show s o me ze a l in th e ca us e o f tr u th a n t i justice t is upon M r . L ur i otti S t h at h e W ou ld cast t h e imputa tion of falsehood, and as the public must come to a con clusion upon► some of the , coi N it i roverted paints, as they t) attach the gre a t er cre di t Luriottis or to Mr. Ellice, it is of import ance to show what may ; be the character of the for mer that has met Luriottie da gentleman.hr The only person. charges like` a man, with out shuffling or equivocation Mr. Hume. We do not certainly approve of Ni i Mr. the pre‘eteits conduct ; butoe Does that has nothing to do with he deny any one of the charges brought by t j t at • t 's A ga' him ? Does he impute falsehood t o his accitlie)er? st unequivocally, No. On the contrary , he op en l y and almost miraculously confirms every f a c t that Luriottis had pre viously alleged. Now, if there were ever a eircumstfillee which, however attested, would have excited doubt in an inquirer,—if there ever were ;tit allegation so improbable, that the most solemn evidence could , not have procured credit for it, it was that allegation of the 541. interest; an d yet upon this most improbable, nay almost incredible point was Mr. Luriottis pronounced, by Mr. Hume, to be reii, giously correct. Whether, therefore, Luriotti s be dese r vi ng of implicit credit after this, we may leave to the world to decider. Mr. Ellice says, " he is accused of having received 14,090/, aliticardo's commission." Who accus ed him, we esk Not Luriottis. He neither knew, nor could know, anything on.that subject. We certainly stated that Such was the rumour upon 'Change. But if Mr. Ellice had none of the commission, it is very easy for the Ri cardos to say so, or to state what part he had. Mr. El- Lee says that "it is to give plausibility to this idle false hood (of the I. 1,0001.) that Luriottis alleges my extreme anxiety to induce himself and his -colleagues to _conclude the contract with the Ricardos." Luriottis having no thing to do with the falsehood, had no interest to give it plausibility ;—but we Will venture to ask Mr. Ellice if he means to deny having been in Lin iottis's house, before daylight one morning in February—the very morning of Luriottis's return from Paris—urging him to set aside the French contract ? However, in the dark or the sun's [warns, Mr. Ellice does now acknowledge, and is forced to acknowledge, that he did induce Mr. Luriottis to reject the French engagement. The only matter of importance, therefore, upon this point, is, which was the more advanta geous—the French or the English ? And here, we confess, we view at this moment with such astonishment what Mr.El lice has written, that we can hardly believe our own eyes. The English loan was 55} ; "but in the meantime," says he, " Mr. Luriottis bad engaged in a provisional one at Paris, at the ostensible price of 59; but if I remember rightly the details, on much worse terms, when the commission and other deductions were considered, than with Messrs. Ri 7 cardo." Remember rightly! if you remember rightly ! Why, this is the whole question upon which you have to acquit yourself !---whether the French terms were better or worse than the English; and now you say they were " much worse," if you remember rightly! Why did you urge the Deputies to accept a contract of in preference to one of 59, if the motive were so trifling that you cannot now remember it ? But there is another part of Mr. El lice's letter, of which we cannot speak in terms of repre hension suffi c i e ntly s t rong . M r . Luriottis had stated (and the committee had punished the statement.), that' he had reused to accept any part of the 7,1i001. set aside for the Greek Deputies. On this .Mr. Ellice says, that he does not know what credit is due to. Mr. Luriottis for this claim to disinterestedness, and therefore (because he does not know) advises the public to suspend their judgment upon ittill they have some information respecting it from his colleagues. We do not believe that there ever took place in human affairs, - or that there exists now in public writ -1 ing, ail) , case like this, in which a man having no accusa tion to bring against another, not daring to charge him with a falsehood, but simply disbelieving, or pretend ing 'to disbelieve, - what he says, Shall - upon his own in credulity have requested the public to suspend their judgment, • or, in other words, to hold an unaccused per son as a suspicious character. Mr. Ellice, what right have you to eall upon the public to suspend their judgment respecting Mr. Luriottis, because you do not know what credit is . due to him ? Ask the public to suspend their judgment upon yourself, if you please, till you shall have published a more eatisfactory explanation of your, conduct. Such a request on your part would be precedented and ordinary. But let the public deal as they. please with others. We know not, really, whether it is from incapacity or intention on the part of the writer, but the rest of the letter is written in so confused a manner, that we really cannot extract out of it what Mr. Ellice would wish to state, or to have believed, respecting the 10,0004 Which was said'to have been placed in the hands of his bankers, as soon as the contract was signed for build ing a boat, for which these 10,0001. were to pay. "He has now received from town," he says, " the particulars of the moneyreceived for the steam-boat." Very well.' How did he receive them ? By the three penny post.— " And although the money was certainly placed at his int..' mediate disposal, there never was a balance of 2,0001. in the hands of the persons to whom the management of this part of the business was confided." Who said there was What is meant by this irrelevant matter? It is probable that - Mr. Ellice, as well as others dipped in the same transaction, may talk of the discovery now making with regard to the Greek loan, "as a nine-day s ' won d er ." We shall therefore explain what occurrences do, and what do not, come under that proverbial description of a nine-days' wonder. They are nine-days' wonders which have refe rence to people that are never heard of afterwards, that sink into obscurity for ever, when the bustle of the affair which brought there into peculiar notice has subsided. But no man who means in future to appear upon the stage of public life, can ever antler a transaction in which his cre dit or honour are concerned to %Aside, without afford ing the fullest explanation of his conduct: Such a transaction will revive again and again in the general remembrance, so long us he lives and attracts notice.— Ibid. We this day publish' a letter transmitted to us by Lord Cochran°. It of course abstains from speaking of his Lord ship's views and naval projects, and with the latest pro ceedings in London he is unacquainted.—lbid. The cause of Greece is, at this moment, in a much more deplorable state, perhaps; than it has been at any pe riod since the commencement of the struggle. The' no velty of the scene—the oppression of the Turks, and the flattering prospects of independence and liberty, at first animated every ono to stand forth in behalf of his country. The manner in which they conducted themselves for some time, both by sea and land, did great credit to their bra very and national feeling, and threw into' the shade and even rendered ridiculous the partial and vain attempts at revolution made by the Italians and Spaniards. The result, however, it is to be feared, will be nearly the same.— Searcely ayy thing short of a miracle, or the interference of the other European Powers, can save them. Their Chiefs by quarrelling with one another commenced the work of destruction ; and their friends in this country, by similar quarrels, and mismanagement, and peculation, have com pleted it. It is hardly possible, indeed, from all appear ance, for may cause to be more hopeless. We may be mis taken, and hope we are so, for the sake of a people who, with all their faults, have made a noble stand against op pression; but it is quite impossible to shut our eyes to the scenes which are passing. By the failure of the expedition intended for Lord Cochrane, the most favourable opportu nity has been lost; and even supposing that it had not, and that two frigates, the most that can be counted on, and a similar number:of steankmats were at his command, what could be done without Money, and where could money to any amount be now raised for the Greeks ? Their friends on the Continent may continue their subscriptions, and peihaps in this country a new feeling may be excited in their flavour, but it is well known that subscriptions will go but a short way in currying on a war. A third loan is out of the question ; and the Greeks probably in a short time will be left to their own resources, and to fight their battles alone. We inclined to think that little relief can be expected from the European Powers. The Go vernment of this country, if . it be not quite impartial, is more likely to be in favour of the Turks than the Greeks. If the Greeks were successful in establishing an independ ent republic, the lonian Islands would most probably make an attempt to imitate their brethren, and throw off the pro tection of England. They perhaps too, from their loge of money, might find it convenient to sell some of their islands to the American Government, and thereby afford a footing in the Mediterranean to our rivals. In case of a war too, they might be more inclined to side with the Americans—republicans, like 'themselves—than with a Government that for a king time has been on the most friendly terms with their oppressors. They might form settlements in Egypt, mid in time open a way for our ene . rnies in the East. In short, there are a number of reasons for our Government favouring the Turks; and we suspect that the-Russians and Austrians, if they should side with the other party, would do so only with the hopes of ob taining a s h are i n the b oo ty, o r of ruling over them. To suppose that Austria and Russia would unite with Eng hind and France 'to protect rebels—men who have openly violat e d th e most sacred principles of the, Holy and that t oo w i t h out obtaining some increases of territory, or 601110 reward for their interference -- i$ quite out of the question. We see no hopes. for the Greeks, indeed, but ni to themsel v es, their own energy, and their dread of retaliation from the advice that Lord Byron e them—to:trust „ was perhaps the bes t that could be given; a a n n t d i i tle ti t i o t r f e r l a i u odi d y . g s he had of danger from "Turkish force in modern tim • es, may b_ ttheapirit of prophecy, even joined with that of poetry. It is prophecy should have so distressing t o thinxin'tohvaete soon fulfilled, and that the latter part of it should apply almost solely to England and America--countries that boast of their liberty and justice, and that ought to have been the last to defraud a nation struggling for such bless ings.,—Morning Herald. We have extracted from The County Herald, a brief, but very able historical account of the law respecting the closing up of foot-paths, down to the last grand improve ment, under which the manifold acts of oppression com mitted by interested Magistrates have roused the most in dignant feeling throughout every part of the countrye—; This is one of the many usurpations on the rights of the people, in which the Great Unpaid have been incessantly engaged during the last century. .We have here a preg nant illustration of the truth of the maxim of Harrington, that "Accumulation of Magistracy is neither just nor equal; nor the confounding of executive and legislative Magistracy safe." The same men, who either compose or make the Parliament, assume to themselves the execu tion of the laws, in the separate character of Justices of Peace. They are thus armed at all points against the peo ple. If the execution of the laws were in other bands, some difficulty might occur, in giving even to the worst lalivs an effect uniformly in favour of the interested law-makers : but they watch with the most sacred care over that which gives them a power to oppress, possessed by no class of men in any civilized country. Whether in a country like England, of which the Government is Oligarchical and the Aristocracy All-powerful, it would be possible to possess a system .„ of local Magis tracy . sufficiently independent to afford protection to the people against their superiors, is a question to which different answers will be returned by different people. We think the thing possible. But of this there can be no question—that under no Magisterial system could so many notorious abuses take place, so much de testable jobbing in all its modifications, under none could the poor be left so completely at the mercy of the rich, as " under that .of the Great Unpaid. The end and object of that system is, to give the most unlimited scope to plun der and oppress the people in every possible way. ,There is hardly a single trust reposed in the Great Unpaid, which they have not abused to the purpose of gratifying a low and sordid selfishness. Were there no other instances, the jobbing in public-houses, by which an immense tax is levied on the people of England—not to mention the deleterious compounds which they are forced to swallow by the monopolists—would alone be sufficient to settle the character of the Unpaid Magistracy. The oppres sion in the way of closing up foot-paths has been car ried to such an extremity, as .to rouse the people in the North to form Societies for the vindication of their rights against the usurpations of the Magistracy. But though the people of the North have been first in the field, the Magistrates of the South are not, less ao tive than their brethren elsewhere. We are constantly receiving letters, detailing the struggles between Magi strates and the people with respect to foot-paths. A late case communicated to us will show the barefaced length to which Justices will go in keeping each other in counte nance in their unrighteous doings. There was lately an appeal to the Quarter Sessions of the County of Sur rey, against an order of Justices, for stopping up a foot path about a mile from Guildford, and by the good for tune alone of the Clerk to the Justices having made a technical mistake in the wording of the notice, the Ses sions were obliged to allow the appeal. Though the signature of only two Magistrates is necessary to an order of this description, five actually signed it, and as there would thus have been so many parents bound to foster their bantling, in case it should be carried to the Quarter Sessions, without this technical error, the prospect of the appellants would have been gloomy in the extreme. — The grounds over which the path passed belonged to one Magistrate living in the parish, and the mansion house of another Magistrate stands at one end of the path ; and, horrible to relate ! the public, to go this way, walked close to the pallisades of the shrubbery belonging to the latter. These two gentlemen were of cnurse the projectors of the order ; and though there was suarelly eau hitihiithisi out of the ' 'Magistracy, within ten miles of the place, who did- not regret the probable loss of the path, it being used by all classes for recreation, business, and convenience, it is understood the Sessions would, under the influence of their interested brethren, have confirmed the order, and finally shut up the path, had the " merits" (to use the legal misapplied term) been gone into. But though this job was frustrated, a large bill for surveyors' charges, for plans, tavern charges for witnesses at Kingston, &c., was necessarily incurred, which was defrayed by a subscription purse, raised by per sonspatggwriileivperdobcaobmlymipuriietvye.nt T t h b e e o s c i l g iu n i i n ng incurred by the no otherwise int ere st e d i n t h e P at h, t h an as mem b ers ofa te a t 73 a fresh though, if the Magistrate s c h oose, they may harass order,rass th people every year with the same expence, till they succeed in their attempt. The misfortune is, that there are no men in Parliament, possessed of leisure and good will sufficient to enable them to check our Magisterial Legis lators in their career of usurpation. Th e Lawyers in, the House, if they were disposed to render themselves unpo pular with the Squires, have not the time. It is as much as they can do to afford time for a speech occasionally on soma popular topic of discussion. Mr. Hum e i s a l rea d y overwhelmed with the labour of watching the expenditure of the country. Every interest is thus protected in Par liament, but the interests of the people.—Morning Chronicle. . We shall not be suspected of any partiality towards Mr. Wilks, jun., nor of any vehement desire to see him in Par liament; but we abhor persecution; and there does seem to exist a disposition in some quarters to hunt down this individual, because the hue and cry has been once raised. The recent proceedings at the Mansion-House are a proof, that a man, with ninety-nine admitted offences, will not be-long before some alienated friend, or eager enemy, will try to fix upon him the hundredth. But malice of this kind commonly overshoots its mark. Mr. Wilks's situa tion is sufficiently unenviable, sufficiently humiliating, to disarm the most bitter hostility; and to rake up every for gotten transaction of his past life, only for the ignoble pur pose of indulging in long suppressed rancour, may finally end in elevating him to the honours of martyrdom. " The quarrel is a very pretty ono, as it is," observes Sir Lucius 0' Trigger, and Mr. Wilkes - case is in the same predica ment. We would net have the honest impulses of truth vitiated by the maudlin sensibility, which the display of real, or learning, oppression, is sure to excite. Leave him alone. Enough is recorded to make him a distinguished Member of the House of Commons, whenever he may take his seat there.—N ew Timer. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— Oates, the man who was charged with having passed a W. note belonging to the Leicester Bank, knowing it to b e s t o l en, underwent a fi na l examination.--Th e prisoner was ord ere d to And good hail to appear, and answer for the offence of havi ng t h e note in h i e poneSCOn i knowing it t o b e stolen. A number of y oung men were broug h t up , c h arge d w i t h h aving let off fire-work s on T ower-hill, an d coovicted in the penalty of -6s. each. One smartly dressed young man, who was charged with having been particularly active in the amusement of throw ing squib* anumgat the crowd, said he was a gentleman. The LORD Itilavoa.....Th en I flue you 103. A common per son I should only fine 53.. Another mart young man was brought up for the same offence. The Loan Irtarox--VVeu, are you also a gentleman ? Defendant —.-Upon my h onour I am not, my Lord. The Loan 14fayoa--1 fear, from your dress and your address, The defendant assured his Lordship t h at h e did him too much t h a t you are ; an d that 'I must inflict the larger fin e u p on you. honour, and that he was b y no mea ns a gentleman. His Lonnsitir therefore inflicted the ignoble penalty upon him. Five others Were brought up, and they each, so cheap was gen tility in their estimation, d e ni e d all elaim to it, to save th em selves a few shillings. THE MURDERS NEAR LEATHERHEAD. Ever since the perpetration of the murders at Fetcham, con siderable suspicion has been attached to a man named William Page, alias Cobbler Will, the paramour of Mary Ayres, the grand-daughter of John Akehurst, who was so inhumanly mur dered on the night of the 13th of October. Although every ex ertion has been made since the murders to discover the retreat of the above individuals, no intelligence whatever was learnt respect ing them until Saturday morning last, when it appears Mary Ayres went into the shop of a tobacconist at Weybridge, and having asked to be supplied with half an ounce of tobacco, commenced of her own accord to converse on the subject of the late murders to the person who served her. " Why," said she, " I have heard lately, that John Akehurst and his housekeeper, Elizabeth Haines, have been murdered at • Fetcham."—" Yes," said the shopkeeper, " and a dreadful murder it has been." She replied, " Then John Akehurst was my grandfather, and the man that I live with is the person who is suspected of having committed the mur ders." She then said, "My name is Mary Ayres, and lam now going towards Oakshot, where my father sad mother live, to show them and the world that I am innocent." The to bacconist allowed her to depart; but soon after she had left Weybridge she was mat by a constable named Watson, who, it appears, had gained previous information of the road she bad taken. When the constable first saw her she was walk ing along the road, smoking a pipe of tobacco. He did not immediately pretend to know who she was at the time. Being in a gig, he throve the horse up alongside of the footpath where the was walking, and addressing her, he asked whither she was going? she replied without hesitation, that she was going to Oakshot to see her father and mother. The constable then asked whether she should like to have a lift along the road ? " Ay," said she, " and thank you too." She then stepped into the chaise, and the constable, desirous of ascertaining whether she would give any account of herself during the fair at Leatherhead, that took place on the 11th of October, asked her whether she had been there ? she said she had not, but that on the very day the above fair commenced, she was present at one that took place in Hampshire, upwards of 60 mile; from Leatherhead. The constable then inquired her name ? she, without the slightest de gree of embarrassment, replied, " My name is Mary Ayres ; and having heard the report of my grandfather, John Akehurst, and his housekeeper, Elizabeth Haines, being murdered in their cot tage at Fetcham, and that Will Page and I were suspected of being the murderers, I am now on my way to my father's house, and intend to go to Fetcham before the Justices to clear myself of the charge. " Who is Will Page?" asked the constable. "Why I (said she), he is the man I have been living with, and is as inno cent of the charge as I am." Watson then drove ou to Fetcham, to the residenoe of J. Hankey, Esq., where an examination of this woman took place before that gentleman, the Rev. J. G. Bollaud, and the Rev. Mr. Heberden. The examination took place at a late hour on Saturday night. Mary Ayres is rather ,a well-look ing woman, above the middle stature, with an expression of coun tenance approaching that of the Lipsey tribe. She was dressed in a brown cloak, and wore a cottage-shaped black beaver bonnet, with boots laced up in front. Mr. BOLLAND then commenced the examination—You are the grand-daughter of John Akehurst, who was murdered lately at Fetcham ?—" I am." Mr. BomaNn then warned her not to answer any questions which would tend to criminate herself. Mary Ayres curtseyed, and thanked the Magistrates, intimat ing that she had nothing to conceal; she was anxious, she said, to clear herself of the charge of having any participation in so hor rible a crime as the murder of her own flesh and blood, meaning her grandfather. Mr. BoLtaxu—Where were you on the 1I th of October, the day on which Leatherhead fair begoA? Mary Ayres, having taken a short time to recollect herself, said, " On the 11th of October I was at Weyhill fair, in Hamp shire, along with Will Page." Mr. BOLLAND—Can you bring forward any persons to prove they had seen you at the fair you speak of?—Yes, Sir, there is a man named Bignold, who travelled with Will Page and myself; he is in the neighbourhood of Fetcham now, and will prove what I have stated to be correct. Mr. BOLLAND—When did you hear the report of your grand father and his housekeeper having been murdered ?...-We did not hear of them until the last week or so. • _ . Mary Ayres accounted for the citcumstance of not hearing of the murders, by saying that neither herself nor Will Page were in the habit of having intercourse with the people of the towns which they passed through ; they gaiued a livelihood by travelling about the country as " tranipers," and always, slept, ate, and drank in their own tent, which they pitched at some distance from any town. As for reading or seeing a newspaper, they scarcely knew what it meant. The Magistrate's here sent a messenger over to the Bell public house, where the man named Bignold before alluded to was in waiting. Bignold (on his arrival) swore that he was in com pany with Mary Ayres and Wm. Page from the commeneement to the conclusion of Weyhill fair ; that he afterwards travelled with them to other fairs on their way back into Surrey, and added, that none of them , heard of the murders of her grandfather and Elizabeth Haines until their arrival within a short distance of Weybridge. He concluded hie evidence by saying, that it was impossible for any one to assert with truth, that Mary Ayres had been seen in the neighbourhood of Leatherhead during the fair at that place. This young mean seemed to give his evidence with a great deal of candour. At this stage of the investigation, messengers were dispatched for the purpose of bringing forward a man named Smith, who, it will be recollected, had. asserted, noon after the murders were per petrated, that he had seen Mary Ayres at Leatherhead fair. This man, on being confronted with the woman, having elosely exa mined her features and dress on the present occasion, replied that he was still convinced that she was the person whim he had seen in the fair. On tittering his firm belief as to her identity, Mary Ayres expressed considerable indignation against the man, and with a look of anger scowled at him, and said he had as serted a gross falsehood, and accused him of uttering that which he knew was false, for the purpose of 'getting money. Mr. 13oLLAwn here very closely questioned Smith on the points which he had asserted. Smith, by his answers, seemed to have had a very slight knowledge indeed of her, for lie could not positively swear that he had ever seen her before the time be bad asserted at the fair. On the following day (Sunday), a constable having been sent to take Page into custody, met that individual on the road from Weybridge, coming towards town, (where, it will be remembered, according to Mary Ayres 's account, he was to meet her), and ap prehend him. Page did not evince any agitation on apprehension; hut, on the contrary, said, that he was most happy to go any where, to vindicate his character from the imputation now attached to it. Mr. BoLLANn (to Page)—How long ago is it since you were at Leatherhead fairl—Page said that he had not been there since last October 12 months. The bundlee belonging to Page were then ordered to be exa mined, but there was nothing found except some of their old clothes, their bedding, and the shoemakers' tools, which he used in his business. The Magistrates consulted together for a short time, and ex pressed their opinion that there was no evidence to warrant them in detaining either of the parties. Page and Ayres were accordingly discharged, both of them in timating that they intended to proceed to Oakshot to see the father and mother of the latter. RE-APPREHENSION OF M. AYRES AND W. PAGE. Watson having again searched the property of Will and Mary Ayres, found a gown and other articles, which he considered wero important as far as they confirmed the evidence of Smith. He therefore took Will and Mary Ayres on Monday night again into custody, and had them locked up in the rage at Weybridge. Yes terday they were brought back again to Fetcham, and were al lowed to sit in the parlour at the Bell public-house. The father and mother of Mary Ayres were with them, and t h e y repeatedly said to her, " Oh, Mary, I hope thee beset innocent . " " That I am, by God," she exclaimed, " and that lying rascal, Smith, would hang me, if he could." She added , " Wh y , fat her , this is my birth-day; I am 22 this day." God, so thee Nest, 'The old man replied, "Good you r things, Mary, that will get you murder." The mother of the has found something amongst and I a l wag y i s rl til d, t , h , tt rh th ey ee sa di:s thet n co ot n d s o ta th ble e into trouble?" Mary Ayr" ;mover") " Never mind, mother, they cannot hang mss find what they woul l, for. I committed no murder." ...---........... of PAGE and MARY AYRES. e committal of the former SEVXN O'CI,PCIC. FETCUA) a _m . The second exatnination.of t W I in . t Page, alias " Cobbler WiU," RE-EXAMINATIO I N Tuftsrair Ev Rut NG, and Mary Ayres' e' in h to llorsenionger- lane Gao l,a nd h as term i n a ted mot condition of her appearing again on a future day.—The fol lowing are the particulars of the investigation before the Rev. Mr. Bolls:id, which took place this evening, at the Bell Tavern t..... m r , Watson, the ,owettable of Weybridge, stated, that he had searched the travelling-baggage, he. b e longing to the prisoners, and found a considerable quantity of leather, and a variety of working tools Ased by Will in his business ; also, a velveteen jackets a flannel jacket, and a pair o f t roweers , w hi c h had spot* of blood on them. Ha produced the articles, and the Magistrates eXatnined them. He further stated that be found a gown, amongst other articles of wearing apparel belonging to Mary Ayres, which appeased to bins to have marks of blood en it. Witness also produced a silver tea-spoon, and two pint pots, the marks upon which had been obliterated. Cobbler Will exclaimed, that it was all stuff about there being marks of blood en the clothes; so help bins God, he and Marl were innocent, and the clothes had been spotted in consequence of their having been put on the sore back of a poor donkey. The Rev. Mr. 13oLLAND expressed much doubt if the meal were caused by human blood. Cobbler Will complained of the treatment of Watson, the con stable, at a public-house at Weybridge, on Monday night. He said that he end Mary Ayres were locked up in the round-1100e, without having any food supplied them, and they were kept there all night. Watson replied, that having discovered new, and what he ma• ceived to be important evidence against the prisoners, lie wow to the public-house to 'take them into custody; and Will swore the moat horrid oaths, that }lO cursed petty constable should take starve him to death ; and when he (Watson) attempted to wore him, he rushed upon bin:, and almost strangled him, by twisting his neck-kerchief. Cobbler Will.--(With an oath), wasn't going to be starved to death by you ; poor Mary is as innocent as a child unborn. Smith, who had previously stated that he saw Mary Ayes'a' Leatherhead fair, was re-examined, and persisted in his former story. The Rev. Mr. BOLLAND did not seem to give much c redit le this witness, and observed that is was very strange if Mary Ayres was at the fair both days, that only one individual in the taw r '' where she was so well known, should be able to speak to th at tact; and as she had surrendered herself, acid lead confirmed her statement that she was at Weyhill fair at the time of the Murwder, by the testimony of Rips% he did not think he sh ould be ar' ranted in committing her. relative A to question som w e reply, he used the most disgusting language; be told the Mgr i trate he might be cursed, and find them out. He was aske d e l, as . pu o t f to h g tte w p a r y is: o n b e b r ery P: a g i e i , d l a , o l ; r a se s .4 Co te b s b u l n e g r . % .l ll l ; what means he and Mary Ayres had obtained a subaietell ee some time? lie replied that sometimes he made shot's- and tel . " . them, sometimes he attentle fairs, and sometimes Mary Pell wed herself to get a few shillings, anti they managed as !! d tl i t d ey no c t ou ca ld r , e afocrursesdl what t t tlhiveye didby I‘so.imthe bins, him the next minute. and they might 11 ' 4 of Union Hall, upon the subject of some evidence which I la a d , The Magistrate having consulted with Grassmith, the dfi be c e e i r i obtained against the prisoner, concerning a felony committed in Hampshire, he (the Magistrate) said, that _hstooe made up his mind to commit Cobbler Will to llorstmonger-1 Gaol, for re-examination. pelt Mary Ayres was asked if she would attend at the ,i me . nation. She stated her willingness to come forward at any tease of a horse and donkey, and the other property Watson, the constable, stated, that he would keel' P r ' s :._ ba g or other. 17 seized belonging to Cobbler Will. ° petty; Cobbler Will swore that Watson wanted to steal the pr but the whole belonged to Mary Ayres. A • n ortel Watson said something about expences %Wel be lie d ',, ob i e t in apprehending the prisoners, and said the horse wag `-• Will's, and not Mary Ayres s. n of y:riii,h The Rev. Mr. Itou.ann said, that from the adnua''' - i bp Watson, it appeared that the horse had been fairly obtained bY prisoner, and e thouht ug not to.he dined. Watson did h not con g cur it wi o th ht the opinion of eta the Magistre °, o l ventured to expostulate in no very moderato or polite teriesega'o giving up the property ; but the Magistrate insisted ups' constable returning it to Mary Ayres. Wi} l . A warrant of commitment was made out against Cobbler , and given to Grassmith, who conveyed him to Horsenieng er '' gaol. He will be examined again in a few days. The manufacturing operatives of Carlisle have up among themselves a petition against the Corn Laws , ti ) `!l: L it they attribute a host of evils; having, however, mingl ed divers absurd political doctrines, such as annual parliArnee,ll::, meal suffrage, &c., they defeat their own purpose. W e 6 „,, V ,P1t tithe with them most sincerely in their distresses ; 0;!It their sufferings have been great, and they have borne thee' ren , a patience truly praise-worthy ; but we should belie our o.oe or science, science, and assist them in their delusion, were we to lil t 6 do, political opinions. Their experience oug ht to illf" ear. tadg 000 1 ' ere this, that relief cannot spring from a big b Patriot. .0 falling.off We ar on e pfa the duty is ha th re e anudsta u kv f e a s c„ring y of o Carlisle and Wigtonfil whi' h 1 nuln d too resultedare thousands d a done .:. again been put out of work. This, it is be li e" ; ' tbs t place, it degreeititoottornmt b: thqt. taken f v tter:i e n:dan t ot o rrt 1 isledestitute. ittaprinteda:announce iAvesb esi fit ohc a e7.„ . ~ abishho_rrToiwobei:or t ::: hams, cheeks, and all descriptions of goods, the patterns 0 0 I this d o e n scriion of goOds affords both better wages antliadillfitocreturilis: e tl i t n e pl a o lte ed ration ; lar employment than common calicoes, and cannot be don: be ' . 0 , a ber uv o i f oou p c e : l iitalists by a change would greatly counterbalance all '",e ° on otl would of thoseaccrue from i" to say nothing of the loss upon the P r i t w eil off; atdenglgrd in the business. The calico printers et e f , we should think that the injory which u ri, eit ~t ... great majority of them do not wish, we bi15,:g,,,,, bankruptcies, and iarrehaeviinnpglosyueirde i r nei ineisaanbitylactturi.3.,.girlid,o for there y in wh b a u t t is a e f a er ied h jooubseperiinnthiltglan, :Titles:here a n n lo d st dae ir , o o o , By the remission of the tax in question! ni,','ll,, * frilli b wtahlia o vicovr t tted i eue m reduction and want teL_Tnp_loy.et o in h a w r e e a p v properly g r a lose. ns checks , The oikiele.raativiveras ‘ n e r ii i n ebe_ b i l .toe, , if, , , s t il *avers ; but this change is likely to bring tD P . ' % ;11 t ot r. There cannot be a better argumeo le ' wo e. a( r in u f, s ei l n i liii,niiitotuyorieltehneitt, btnehriiiin, es o s o , y t o t tert : iy , :itor:be j cripti calr.r o tnh n gitel°hh o (ab) f milyiwi N t V heb e e a in v faci e l rit ieSt : 4Wf o hth t ' i 'le r poor-rates have not icresi l ?' on liolt to duty on prints is repaid by the purchase's, who hove thet.r4,o" purchase untaxed goods, in the shape of Carlisle et' or checks, &c., it they cannot afford to buy prints, no in f,,,b et . pletely a voluntary burden. While taxes remain upon tr sire varies as candles and soap, the repeal of which wou ld , ~',t tott l !' t benefit to every poor cottager, we do not think it e xpo'"•,. dlile. i_o e ff prints, which cannot be termed one of ths nrcogo,e'c;,o6 andw(Crreshe,artNpotlnhNdsetEnpittis_RtyleteEaryilniosteinentpoioayntrsoifoNit.hueF mr.siuf:tva:::::: co Wigton to present a memorial to *Minister* on tl' is . h bourst wtbrl'.eriotiehtd:gehhotintothtehSe terhaonpd.d: leave his enjoys a s neighbourly pinch of snuf, h dog itlo coh , il his sh op to obtain it ; to obviate this; h i. . t 0 p c''' and wags his tail till a snuff-bot ,g, t A COAYI.OIIOI 1, 000, tunity, his master's fi nger pointed towards his oig, bb , ° „ l :l, OI L ° h i e w immediately obeys the word, " Go ;" crosse s t ' le 'i l i s "m e sa° M. Le n i l t o t t o ite the y, i , pod in to 10 ,iisf his r t which he immediately makes m e exit ' ll' h ' u , su pplie the boxe urn at the door. The olfactory nerve fall eilLig.thfail.l,s withis again placed in the dog's mouth. tour' - lity, lately deceastd ot: , : turns &the 011°I. owner. The dog re poodle breed. . s en Frenc d h wr A iter h o . r t c i : a n t s : l t e t r i l e l l i. l l ?::: s i r b eir t: he had been ' on hoananedd a,°badiseic'eur-in:rigaketrihree°igtill'elt."°6l:briltbf'e leon, free access to the Government srt, liv6s ,„„ whic h , purpose of writing a hi s t or y o f L ou is It., v" eg o Government . g ' ga t ° • "S his Arc gi. ins at Ctel meanslatt is stud to have seized on his W o r k , it ',jot , . t h e A rc la oiti . MS the property of the State. If this sio i , t vi ol mate') prevent the publication of the work , I L ro ar NI. e ' teymuch to be lamented in this country, 23 - ga 6111 ' was accustomed to boast that he polo, the England. „„).,,,, 1 h, BIRTHS. ..eard 134 On the 6th inst., at Dense Park the lady of A" ..- . t h e z e t r p a t o a r c d e i noarr oat i,r,rivessroebsptas icileffora ,g o°' Esq., of a daughter. On the 2d inst., in Tenterden- street, Haasirev44ii--' On the 18th ult., with Henry Dance, of a daughter. ets °n the 4 th inst., at Willenhall-bouse, Esse Wr it the lady . of Thomas Wyatt, Esq., of a 46 0 * DIED. r biO OS: 4 after a few days' illness, of a bilious ' fever, John 51Altrilt4',. 400. Alexander, Esq., eldest ton of John Alexander, rafl• '''' '"' e- t I' 111$ ° ' On the sth inst., after a severe illness, in 11' 11 ; e- 4 /. 1 " - w:0s . chester-square, Sir Richard liardinge Bart., etc!'" '," 1 itotO r at Florence in the 25th Yen; ° i p olto l On the soth ult., at Calais on lin:return to Dogian , ttle Donaldson, Esq. Commander is the RoYal Navy. .. - oro car Ptinbed 'and Published by M. -Y0U744t3, at 00 Sti ll No. I 12, Szaerro. cm:: ve ryiicentained e xtracts from